Sunday, December 19, 2010

You may have seen the recent IBM television commercials which mention that up to 10% of the prescription drugs in legal, brick and mortar pharmacies are dangerous counterfeits. IBM continues by discussing their efforts to secure the supply chain.

Closely related to this problem are the illegal online pharma sites operated by organized crime. Today's DNS Blackhole update includes thousands of these sites.

We now have 182,121 unsavory domains blackened. Russian and Ukrainian cyber criminals are in our sights, and should give it up.

You can get the (free) DNS Blackhole for Smoothwall files at:confighosts

Edit hosts to match your LAN, and place these files in /var/Smoothwall/hosts/.

If you use the Bind or Mara DNS servers, the best DNS Black Hole resource is David Glosser's Malware Domains.